Did you know that corporations have found a way to cheat, steal, and defraud Americans without ever being held accountable for their actions? It's called forced arbitration.

Buried in the fine print of many bank and credit card terms of service (in addition to nursing home, employment, insurance and cell phone consumer contracts) are dangerous forced arbitration clauses that kick cheated consumers out of court and instead funnel them into a secretive dispute mill rigged in favor of Big Banks and predatory lenders. With forced arbitration, corporations have granted themselves a license to steal and evade the law. And they are getting away with it.

But with your help, this can be stopped. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) can revoke corporations' license to steal by stopping the abusive practice of forced arbitration.  This would be a significant step forward in our fight to end forced arbitration clauses in other areas, like nursing home contracts. 

Join us in telling the CFPB to put Americans' financial security above Wall Street profits and stop forced arbitration. Sign the petition to the CFPB today! 

The sister of a former Chicago man filed a group home negligence lawsuit against the Anixter Center, one of Chicago's largest providers of services to people with disabilities, surrounding an incident at its community integrated living arrangement (CILA) group home in Chicago. The suit alleges that the victim's choking death was the result of negligence on the part of the Anixter Center caregivers. Attorneys Margaret Battersby Black and Michael Shanahan filed the suit on behalf of the family.  To read more about the lawsuit, click here .

Steve Levin, John Perconti and Susan Novosad were chosen for inclusion in this year's Illinois Super Lawyers list.  For the third year in a row, all three were also named to the Super Lawyers Illinois Top 100 list, a listing of the lawyers who ranked at the top of the 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers nomination, research and blue ribbon review process. Novosad was also named to the Illinois Top 50 Women list.

Michael Bonamarte, Jordan Powell, Margaret Battersby Black, Cari Silverman, Marvet Sweis, Jaime Koziol, Ashley Herschberger and Colleen Mixan were selected to the 2015 Illinois Super Lawyer - Rising Stars list. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Our attorneys accounted for eight of the fifteen attorneys chosen in the area of Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff.